Portfolio

Here you can find a small selection of my original music. These pieces span different styles, techniques, and periods in my writing career.

“The speaking circle”

This piece was a collaboration with the University of Alabama Theatre Dance department for their touring program, Yonder. The work represents a building anxiety in a noisy public place.

“Ain’t that just the way”

This EP was composed and produced during the Coronavirus lockdown in 2020 from my home studio. It is a mix of acoustic and electronic instruments ranging across several styles.

“How Could I?” was cowritten with SarahJayne Tran (SJ, SarahJayne and the Huntsmen) who also performed the vocals for the track.

“Until Company Comes Back Around” was created entirely from resynthesis, sampling, and vocoding of the song’s original vocal track. I recorded myself singing the melody, then sampled that recording and used it to create each of the digital instruments that I would use for the final version. After the instruments were recorded, I routed the “voice organ” into a vocoder and sang the melody again through it.

“Dialogue” features guitars and backup vocals from Ando San.

“A Nervous Wait”

I started this as a four part chorale sketch while I waited for my first graduate school admissions interview. The goal was to capture the anxiety of waiting for something without any idea of what to expect. In the song’s final version, the original theme is played on piano and guitar before being transformed and reused throughout the piece with granular synthesis, pitch class transformations, and other methods.





"Cafe au lait"

This piece began as an improvisation when I was supposed to be practicing for a recital. I began to develop it into a structured composition when I learned about the "Carol Klose and Hal Leonard Composition Competition" that was coming up, where I received the silver medal in the collegiate division.

Here's my first performance of my piece, "Cafe au lait" at Florida College back in May, 2015. I wrote and recorded this for that year's Carol Klose and Hal Leonard Composition Competition, where I was fortunate to get the silver medal and a ton of free sheet music. Thanks, Hal Leonard.

"Partridge Crossroads I. Sunrise"

This is the first movement of what will be my first symphony. It's named after the community where my grandparents lived when I was little. The music depicts a cold morning on the farm as the sun slowly melts the frost off of the fields.

"Sun Showers (Room 227)" and "Shower Thoughts (Apartment 164)"

These two compositions are duets for piano and cello. Each conveys a glimpse into a different room. "Sun Showers" looks into practice room 227 at my college, where I composed the beginning of a new piece and watched the rain through the window. "Shower Thoughts" takes place in my cheap apartment in Alabama where I took long showers to think about where I was going in life- and to write new music on the walls in crayon.

"Sun Showers (Room 227)" was recorded with my friend Timothy Dow on cello, and entered for the MTNA Composition Contest where it was selected as the Florida representative to the regional competition.

Trinity

I composed this as the main theme music for my first video game collaboration on an upcoming title from Grimoire.

This piece was composed and produced entirely in FL Studio 12.

"Frosty Morning"

This piece is a return to solo piano composition after a long break. I took inspiration from electronic house music by writing in short four and eight measure patterns with few longer phrases.